Angela Rayner is “pretending to be working class”, Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins has claimed on GB News.
The Deputy Prime Minister, who grow up on a council estate and faced the threat of being put into care, was criticised by the business mogul who wants more working class representation in Britain’s top political brass.
He was told on GB News that only a small percentage of Labour MPs attended a private school and perhaps his demands are not a distant pipe dream.
But Mullins insisted none of them know the meaning of real struggle and wants people who have fought from nothing to build a successful life for themselves.
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“Everybody has different meanings of working class”, he said. “I don’t think Angela Rayner comes from a very, very poor background and struggled all her life.
“Yes, she comes from a council estate, but that doesn’t make you working class. She may have gone to university, does that still make you working class?
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“I believe proper working class people that have come from a bad background and started from nothing, I don’t think any of the Labour Party are that.
“If anything, it would be good if half of them just had a proper job. They never have had a proper job where you have to struggle or think for yourself.
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“They’re pretending to be working class.”
Dawn Neesom put it to Mullins that both Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have developed a rapport with working class voters despite coming from backgrounds that cannot be defined as such.
The entrepreneur said both of them have done their research and understand the concerns those from the lower echelons of society have.
He said on the People’s Channel: “They understand it. They have obviously looked into it properly and they don’t have their nose stuck in the air.
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“They understand the values of the working class and don’t look down on them. They get it.
“These other posh people look down on them as if they have no value. That’s why Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson are popular, they get it.
“You don’t have to be working class to get it, but you have to have some sort of humanity about you knowing the value of working class people.
“Many rich people I know have come from working class backgrounds, they will never retire because they have had it very poor and low, and we don’t want to go back to that.”
Dawn said millionaires can still be working class, saying “many people perceive it in different ways.
“I think we make too much about the distinctions, people talk about education, how much money you’ve got, but that doesn’t make you upper class.
“If you’re working class, you’re working class.”
Rayner has previously spoken out on her working class background and how her mother’s bipolar disorder impacted her family.
She also became pregnant at the age of 16 and left school without obtaining any qualifications.